10 new substances added to the Candidate List
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With the improvement of living standards, people are having higher standards on fashion goods, such as footwear, bags & luggage and paying more attention on the health and environments besides on their comfort and style. Complying with this trend, countries or regions all over the world successively launch environmental protection laws and regulations, which have strict control on toxic and hazardous chemicals in the raw materials and its products, such as the USA CPSIA , California 65 Act, EU Reach Rule , Ecolabel Footwear 2009/563/EC , and National Children’s Footwear Safety and Technical Regulations GB30585, Restrictions of Hazardous Materials in Leather and Fur , GB20400, and Restrictions of Hazardous Materials in PVC Artificial Leather, GB21550 etc.
TheCandidate List of substances of very high concern (SVHCs) for authorisation nowcontains 191 substances.
Helsinki,27 June 2018– ECHA has added eight new SVHCs to the Candidate Listfollowing the SVHC identification process with the involvement of the MemberState Committee (MSC).
Two further substances, TMA and DCHP, have also been added to the list, having beenidentified as SVHCs by the European Commission due to their respiratorysensitising properties and toxic for reproduction and endocrinedisruptingproperties, respectively. The Commission’s decision follows the referral of theMSC opinions on these SVHC proposals in 2016.
Substancesincluded in the Candidate List for authorisation on 27 June 2018 and their SVHCproperties:
| # | Substance name | EC number |
CAS number |
Reason for inclusion | Examples of use(s) |
| 1 | Octamethylcyclo tetrasiloxane (D4) |
209-136-7 | 556-67-2 | PBT (Article 57d)vPvB (Article 57e) | Used in washing and cleaning products, polishes and waxes and cosmetics and personal care products. |
| 2 | Decamethylcyclo pentasiloxane(D5) | 208-764-9 | 541-02-6 | PBT (Article 57d)vPvB (Article 57e) | Used in washing and cleaning products, polishes and waxes,cosmetics and personal care products, textile treatment products and dyes. |
| 3 | Dodecamethylcy clohexasiloxane(D6) | 208-762-8| | 540-97-6 | PBT (Article 57d)vPvB (Article 57e) | Used in washing and cleaning products, polishes and waxes,cosmetics and personal care products. |
| 4 | Lead | 231-100-4 | 7439-92-1 | Toxic for reproduction (Article57c) |
Used in metals, welding and soldering products,metal surface treatment products, and polymers. |
| 5 | Disodium octaborate | 234-541-0 | 12008-41-2 | Toxic for reproduction(Article57c) |
Used in anti-freeze products, heat transfer fluids, lubricants and greases, and washing and cleaning products. |
| 6 | Benzo[ghi] peryle ne | 205-883-8 | 191-24-2 | PBT (Article 57d)vPvB (Article 57e) | Not registered underREACH. Normally not produced intentionally but rather occurs as a constituent or impurity in other substances. |
| 7 | Terphenyl hydrogenated | 262-967-7 | 61788-32-7 | vPvB (Article 57e) | Used as a plastic additive, solvent, in coatings/inks, in adhesives and sealants, and heat transfer fluids. |
| 8 | Ethylenediamine (EDA) | 203-468-6 | 107-15-3 | Respiratory sensitising properties (Article 57(f) - human health) | Used in adhesives and sealants, coating products, fillers, putties, plasters, modelling clay, pH regulators and water treatment products. |
| 9 | Benzene-1,2,4-tricarboxylic acid 1,2 anhydride (trimellitic anhydride) (TMA) | 209-008-0 | 552-30-7 | Respiratory sensitising properties (Article 57(f) - human health) | Used in the manufacture of esters and polymers. |
| 10 | Dicyclohexyl phthalate (DCHP) | 201-545-9 | 84-61-7 | Toxic for reproduction (Article 57c) Endocrine disrupting properties (Article 57(f) - human health) |
Used in plastisol, PVC, rubber and plastic articles. A further use is also as a phlegmatiser and dispersing agent for formulations of organic peroxides. |
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